Eritrea Hacker Attacks News Monitoring Service

Ten years ago, Biniam Simon, a journalist at Eri-TV, Eritrea’s state television channel, was informed by his government overlords that he would, after all, be allowed to travel to Japan to attend a seminar on video production. This, to put it mildly, was …

Lithuania ranks 36th in the annual World Press Freedom Index 2018, produced by Reporters Without Borders, unchanged from last year. Neighboring Latvia comes in 24th in the index, Estonia is 12th, reports LETA/BNS.
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Without Borders concluded …

by Zerihun Zelalem
Dr. Tadesse Kersmo
I wrote in August 2017, “Has Britain put liberty on trial by accusing a pro-democracy activist of terrorism?”, expressing my serious concern about a terrorism charge brought against Dr. Tadesse Kersmo, a British …

Citizen Lab found evidence linking the spyware to a command server in Ethiopia showing that 43 electronic devices had been successfully infected, several of which they linked to Eritrea, Ethiopia's one-time territory that is now a bitter enemy. Photo - …

ADDIS ABABA – As soon as Ethiopian opposition activist Henok Gabisa read the email, he knew something was not right.
With the subject line "Democracy in Ethiopia: Can it be saved?", the message seemed tailor-made for him.
Yet the US-based …

As soon as Ethiopian opposition activist Henok Gabisa read the email, he knew something was not right.
With the subject line "Democracy in Ethiopia: Can it be saved?", the message seemed tailor-made for him.
Yet the US-based academic, who teaches …

Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. Doctors can consult via live, online video conferencing, and lectures at prestigious Kim Il Sung University are streamed to faraway factories and agricultural communes. People use online dictionaries and …

Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. Doctors can consult via live, online video conferencing, and lectures at prestigious Kim Il Sung University are streamed to faraway factories and agricultural communes. People use online dictionaries and …

Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. Doctors can consult via live, online video conferencing, and lectures at prestigious Kim Il Sung University are streamed to faraway factories and agricultural communes. People use online dictionaries and …

Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
Doctors can consult via live, online video conferencing, and lectures at prestigious Kim Il Sung University are streamed to faraway factories and agricultural communes.
People use online dictionaries and …

In this May 5, 2015 file photo, a man sits in front of portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, right, as he uses his smartphone in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. This is all …

In this May 5, 2015 file photo, a man sits in front of portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, right, as he uses his smartphone in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. This is all …

In this May 5, 2015 file photo, a man sits in front of portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, right, as he uses his smartphone in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. This is all …

In this May 5, 2015 file photo, a man sits in front of portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, right, as he uses his smartphone in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. This is all …

In this May 5, 2015 file photo, a man sits in front of portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, right, as he uses his smartphone in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. This is all …

In this May 5, 2015 file photo, a man sits in front of portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, right, as he uses his smartphone in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. This is all …

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